Re: using ar to make a shared lib

[Christopher Bottaro <cbottaro at geocenter dot com>]

well because i'm redoing my companies build system and in our lib dir, 
there are like 30 subdirs.  so i just made one file called "libtargets" 
that has a bunch of common targets and rules for our libs.  so for most 
of the makefiles in that libs dir, its just a matter of setting a few 
vars and then including the "libtargets".  as it is, most of our lib 
makefiles just compile a bunch of .o files and then add them to some .a 
file somewhere.  i just wanted to see if i could get the shared libs to 
use "libtargets" also instead of having to write a makefile by hand.

thanks.

On Feb 17, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:45:54PM -0600, Christopher Bottaro wrote:
> > hello,
> > is it possible to make a shared lib (.so file) with ar?  i compile all
> > my sources with gcc and the -fPIC option, but instead of linking them
> > together with gcc and the -shared linker flag, i just wanna use 
> > ar...is
> > this possible?
> >
> > example:
> > gcc -c s1.c -fPIC
> > gcc -c s2.c -fPIC
> > gcc -c s3.c -fPIC
> > ar crv s.so s1.o s2.o s3.o
> >
> > thanks for the help.
>
> No.  Why don't you try to explain why you don't want to use gcc
> -shared?
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer